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Well, they say that a picture is worth a thousand words. I cannot produce the former, so maybe I will go with the latter... or at least a greatly abridge version.

At 3pm taday I was sitting in a multi-media lecture hall listening to a talk on the moral implications of genetic privacy with regard to upcoming advancements in biotechnology. Its more interesting than it sounds. The walls were blue and my chair was forest green.

Don't mention the war.

Three o'clock. Just a random view from an office window at my place of work. What you are looking at is in fact, ahem, a WWII concentration camp.

This is the Adlerwerke, the buildings in the rear accommodated a total 1600 prisoners from all over the continent who built tanks from 1944 until the end of war. Most of them died due to cold, hunger, air raids and during the evacuation. The entire courtyard (which you do not see to the right) has been turned into a huge memorial – forbidden ground.

I‘ve been thinking about some Zen gibberish on impermanence, memory and the like. Bullshit – there is just stuff before your eyes. Sometimes sad, always wonderful stuff.

sangha fun

Hello all!
I'm back at work and things are full tilt. I'm checking in here about every 3-4 days and so I'm missing some pretty neato stuff--like the 3pm 'come as you are/where you are' party. What a fun idea! Haven't done more than just quickly glance over the photos--the woods drew me in--and Lynn YIKES kidney stones are such a pain!
Please make sure you are hydratred (it helps--somewhat)!

Thanks to all for your kind thoughts for healing. I'm doing fine this morning and am going to kick back today.

These photos and sharings (for those cameraless) are fabulous! Jundo: Where the heck heckies were *you? Atop a mountain in Japan???

I was wondering what y'all experienced having to stop for a moment in the middle of your schedules and doings to observe your life through a lens? What made you choose the part of your environment you photographed?

Mensch wrote: I‘ve been thinking about some Zen gibberish on impermanence, memory and the like. Bullshit – there is just stuff before your eyes. Sometimes sad, always wonderful stuff.

Sure, just tell us the time and date. :-)
I was going to suggest that we do it every week at certain day, but at least I have such a fixed schedule that I pretty much know what I'm doing weekdays from 9am to 5-7pm and most of that time I cannot take a photo easily.

Hi Karl,
Check out Jundo's FAQs on the main forum page. It tells about creating your avatar.
I use Flickr.com for my photos. You have to post the pic to their site then embed a link to it in your post on the forum.

Plankton, your picture address is not a hard-coded URL pointing to a specific file (like "http://www.servername.com/directory/filename.jpg") but includes parameters that are interpreted by the hosting server. For direct linking to pictures photopic requires special routines, see: http://fotopic.net/help/directlinking.php

I'd rather switch to a dedicated hosting service. A very simple, fast, flexible and reliable one is Euroupload. The interface is German only but foolproof:

Keep in mind that the forum software displays large pictures at reduced preview size but browsers have to load the hole picture every time. So keep them at reasonable size especially in longer photo threads.